A revelatory historical drama that offers a powerful template for social analysis in fiction.
The killing floor film 1985.
Black migration from the deep south at the time of world war i as seen through the eyes of frank custer leake a sharecropper who comes to the promised.
After premiering on pbs american playhouse series in 1984 to rave reviews the killing floor was invited to cannes and later won the 1985 sundance film festival special jury award.
The killing floor 1985 the labor film database 118m.
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Fiction becomes fact as the agent of a horror novelist moves into a new apartment where spooky events besiege him in the killing floor.
Movie info during world war i impoverished african american father frank custer damien leake leaves his southern family and heads to chicago in search of work.